Pampangan

I know of no variants of this tale, which pretty evidently represents old tribal Pampangan tradition.

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Retana (No. 4164) cites a Pampangan version some time between the years 1860 and 1898, and a later reprint of 1902 (No. 4349).

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Pampangan variant are closest to the Jatakas, and we may conclude without hesitation that they mark a direct line of descent from

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

Our Pampangan story is of particular interest because of the moralizing of the heron at the end, making the form close to that of the two

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

A Pampangan story furnished by Wenceslao Vitug of Lubao, Pampanga, runs thus in abstract: --

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Narrated by Eutiqiano Garcia, a Pampangan, who said he heard the story from a boy from Misamis, Mindanao.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

To demonstrate, I will cite a Pampangan metrical romance and a Tagalog romance, the former probably the parent of our folk-tale.

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This same struggle between the two great luminaries is reflected in two short cradle-songs that Pampangan mothers sing to their children to still them.

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This metrical romance is printed in both Tagalog and Pampangan.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

Narrated by Anicio Pascual of Arayat, Pampanga, who heard the story from an old Pampangan woman.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler